Internet filtering is the process by which requests for sites on the Internet are inspected and then allowed or denied based on a set of "filtering" criteria. Filtering can either take place at the client or server level. WiscNet offers a solution from the 8E6.Com Company that uses R3000 servers augmented by high-speed Blue Coat web cache servers.

Here are the principal benefits to our members who choose WiscNet's filtering service.

1. The Internet content is filtered at the server level not at the desktop, so content is filtered before it reaches to the user.
2. The filtering software and lists of sites to block or allow are stored securely on a WiscNet server.
3. WiscNet staff manages the filtering service.
4. WiscNet staff send an e-mail technical support newsletter to our filtering members.
5. Authorized staff at our member sites may customize their filtering configuration (See Member Managed Filtering).

WiscNet Filtering Service documentation and forms.

The WiscNet Filtering Policy

Filtering's Challenges

Given the cultural, economic and psychological incentives that compel people to offer illicit content and to modify software to defeat filtering measures, WiscNet cannot offer a simple, perfect, plug-and-play content filtering solution.
We do not expect to offer such a solution in the foreseeable future. We do provide a proven, well-engineered "technological protection measure" that focuses the best efforts of many people to responsibly address content filtering.
As such, our filtering service will help our members comply with filtering's newest challenge: the federal Children's Internet Protection Act and its requirement that to receive E-Rate subsidy funding, schools and libraries must filter Internet content.